Description of Research Expertise

Our research focuses on how genotypes produce phenotypes and how they vary and evolve. We are particularly interested in identifying and experimentally characterizing functional human non-coding sequence variation. We aim to understand the mechanisms through which non-coding variants function, with an emphasis on understanding the mechanisms underlying complex human disease. We leverage a combination of high throughput experimental and computational approaches. We are currently focused on massively parallelizing assays that interrogate non-coding DNA function and applying these approaches to the fine-mapping of the causal variants underlying human disease.